Add multiple media to a collection

[chinmaypurav]

I have a file input that accepts n files. I am using multiple attribute to accept that n file input.

<input type="file" name="avatars" multiple> 

I get an array of UploadedFile instances.

If it's a single file I can do

$model->addMediaFromRequest('avatar')->toMediaCollection();

But how do I do it dynamically for n files?

I need an efficient way to handle this situation.

If there is not any way, I am willing to open a PR for the same.

[chinmaypurav]

This is a solution I am using for now

private function getDottedKeysArray(array $array, string $baseKey): array
{
    return array_keys(Arr::dot($array, "{$baseKey}."));
}

private function addMutipleFilesFromRequest(Model $model, array $keys, string $collection = 'default'): void
{
    foreach ($keys as $key) {
        $model->addMediaFromRequest($key)
            ->toMediaCollection($collection);
    }
}

[rabrowne85]

I too was struggling with this just recently and the solution I settled on was as below.

$model->addMultipleMediaFromRequest(['avatars'])
    ->each(function (FileAdder $fileAdder) {
        $fileAdder->toMediaCollection();
    });

This was inspired by the test suite for the package.